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Last year Lewis Hamilton was hailed and adulated for narrowly losing the World Championship in his rooky season and goes on to take the title.
Now after F1 has had more problems than most with sponsorship and funding, proved itself inept in handling rule changes and done more U turns that an F1 car in the rain in Malaysia, we see Lewis languishing and starting to be vilified.
I guess his biggest mistake is to flee to a tax haven while lauding all things British – except paying the tax! But be honest, who wouldn’t if you were in that position?
We have now had the first two Grand Prix and Jenson Button has demonstrated the “car’s the star”. Not taking away from what he has done but I suspect for most of the drivers if you put them in each others cars, the team results would not change.
But of course it brings us back to the perennial topics of building people up to knock them off the pedestal and the envy of the rarefied world of Formula 1. Of course glamour begets glamour and money will chase the glory. Just see how quick Richard Branson got his logo on to Brawn GP when they started clocking great times in Melbourne and had a blank car!
But one thing that has long puzzled me with Formula 1, just how does Bernie Eccleston earn so much? This is from no other perspective than curiosity!
The FIA is the FIA, the teams own the teams, and he gets money from the tracks and sells the media rights! Not bad if you can do it!
07 Apr 2009 16:14:56